{"id":650187,"date":"2013-04-02T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=bcd86a057bec982c4e32741a3fa9a41f"},"modified":"2013-04-02T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:44:31","slug":"ten-years-of-news-corp-income-data-in-less-than-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650187","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years of News Corp. Income Data in Less Than a Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re posting some of our favorite visualizations as part of this month’s Insight Center on the topic<\/a>. My colleague Dan McGinn shared his, on Moleskine, last week<\/a>. Here’s mine: <\/p>\n

At my previous job with the PBS series Frontline, my colleague Sam Bailey<\/a> and I wanted to answer a couple of questions about Rupert Murdoch’s media empire: How, exactly, does News Corp. make its money<\/a>? And has this changed over time? The answers, we were hoping, might help our readers better understand how Murdoch’s beloved, hack-riddled broadsheets<\/a> fit into the rest of his organization. <\/p>\n

So Sam pulled together some pretty dry-looking data from a decade of News Corp. annual reports<\/a> to create this animated treemap. It tells the story of the company’s financial priorities and evolution better than a few hundred words or pages of tables ever could (click on the rectangles between FY 2002 and 2011 for speedier viewing):<\/p>\n

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